John Slattery

Wildcraft your way to wellness! In Southwest Medicinal Plants, John Slattery is your trusted guide to finding, identifying, harvesting, and using 112 of the region's most powerful wild plants. You'll learn how to safely and ethically forage, and how to use wild plants in herbal medicines including teas, tinctures, and salves. Plant profiles include clear, color photographs, identification tips, medicinal uses and herbal preparations, and harvesting...

Self-made millionaire Edgar Freemantle's wife walks out on him after a construction accident leaves him disfigured, so he heads for Florida's Duma Key and starts to paint; however, his work appears to take on a life of its own.

There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First, there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he'd always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne,...

Seventeen-year-old Severin Boxx lives on Yokota, an enormous American air force base on the outskirts of Tokyo that is home to fourteen thousand U.S. soldiers and a large contingent of long-range nuclear bombers. Just outside the base lies the busy Haijima rail station. Exit A is one of the many doorways into this place of movement, anonymity, and sudden disappearance. Much of the novel's action transpires in the netherworld around Exit A, a mad neon...

From Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park and Havana Bay, comes another audacious novel of exotic locales, intimate intrigues and the mysteries of the human heart: December 6. Set in the crazed, nationalistic Tokyo of late 1941, December 6 explores the coming world war through the other end of history's prism-a prism held here by an unforgettable rogue and lover, Harry Niles. In many ways, Niles should be as American as apple pie: raised by missionary...

Sydney Clarke (Sela Ward) is a spoiled famous actress who is shooting a film when she walks in on her cheating fiancé. She storms off the set and finds herself stranded in a small mill town. There, she takes refuge for a while, and in so doing discovers the true meaning of love and friendship. Sydney must decide between wanting a normal life or the high-profile career she's worked so hard for.

Fin McBride, a loner with a passion for trains, inherits an abandoned train station in the middle of nowhere. After moving in, he discovers his isolated depot is more like Grand Central Station. There's Olivia, a troubled artist, and Joe, with an insatiable hunger for conversation.